An asteroid, no more than a pile of rubble, is extremely hard to destroy. Astronomers believe that if the Earth were ever to ...

NASA insists it will be a near miss with no chance of the asteroid hitting Earth. NASA said Wednesday that this newly ...

"It's more like rush-hour around the Capitol building [in Washington, D.C.]. Everything is going around and around and then ...

Dust collected from the surface of an ancient, peanut-shaped and “potentially-hazardous” asteroid has revealed that some ...

Additionally, missions to Apophis could serve as a test bed for new technologies and techniques in space exploration. Apophis's next near-Earth encounter in 2029 will be a valuable opportunity for ...

Next comes ESA's Hera spacecraft which will return to the binary asteroid to perform a close-up survey of the crater left by DART, as well as measuring Dimorphos' mass and make-up, along with that ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, the Southwest ...

One of last year’s space highlights was the NASA DART mission’s collision with Dimorphos (seen right in the animation above), the small moon of the binary asteroid Didymos (seen left). The impact meas ...

NASA's DART asteroid smash flung 2 million pounds of rock into space — NASA's DART asteroid crash: What scientists have ...

While NASA’S successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) proved last year that we are capable of knocking a giant piece of space rock off its trajectory, a future scenario may need more ...

By working in the extremes, scientists are learning about and doing more in space than ever before. The DART mission successfully crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos and slightly ...

NASA's Lucy team has identified a small, as-yet unnamed asteroid in the inner main belt, designated (152830) 1999 VD57, as a potential new and useful target for the spacecraft.